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{{quote| ''Magic is real... It is in the wind and rain. It is in stone and fire. And occasionally, in the souls of people. Lilith was the first. But women blessed by magic have since the dawn of time been a source of fear. However, despite that fear, some have sought her power for insight, knowledge, and healing. [...] Once a protector and mother of civilization, she was soon hunted by the untrusting, the ignorant, and the arrogant. And though she may think she's alone, there were always others. And together they showed the Mundanes they never were the masters of their world. They learned eventually that power comes in all shapes and sizes. So be nice. Or be a toad.''}}

'''''Witch Girls Adventures''''' is a role-playing game published in 2009 by Channel M. While it functions as a stand alone universe, its setting and NPCs both use characters and elements from Channel M's ''[[Witch Girls Tales]]'' comic book series and Abby Soto's ''Princess Lucinda'' comic book series. The game runs on Channel M's own "Drama Diaries" system.

In the game, you play a student at one of the many magic schools set up for witches around the world and go through the usual trials and tribulations that being a tween to teenage girl brings, all while trying to learn how to use your powers. Obviously, the game is designed to get young girls interested in pen-and-paper [[RPG|RPGs]]s.

The game's official website is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922204512/http://www.channelmlive.com/ here.]

* [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]] -- Horrors—Horrors and other servants of Echidna.

* [[Baleful Polymorph]] -- Certainly—Certainly in the game, ''constantly'' in the fluff. [[Fate Worse Than Death|And nearly always permanently.]] Often followed by casually killing the target.

* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: Gilgamesh really was an epic, superhuman hero and the progenitor of a line of immortals. Vlad Dracula really was an evil vampire. H.P. Lovecraft based his stories on the Horrors. Just for starters.

* [[Bleached Underpants]]: The company that publishes the ''Witch Girls'' franchise, [http://www.myspace.com/mangagraphix MANGA GRAPHIX], is credited with running ''[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20010411183322/http://www.geocities.com/gotiger_1999/Sorc1.html The Shrinking Sorceress]'', a now dead Geocities site and e-zine dedicated to "tasteful" art and stories centered around the fetish of people being transformed into animals and inanimate objects by sorceresses. (Note the copyright at the bottom of the page.) [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Malcolm/Harris Malcolm Harris], the author of ''Witch Girls'' and the owner of Channel M, lists himself as a writer for MANGA GRAPHIX in his resume. Several characters, including Denora DeSade, an NPC named Claudia, and the concept of witch girls (in those words) make an appearance in both mediums. It's become a source of [[Old Shame]] for the creator it seems, since pointing it out on the internet often results in the creator and his friends jumping into the discussion and denying the connection.

* [[Canon Welding]]: Princess Lucinda started in her own separate series, and as mentioned in [[Bleached Underpants]], a lot of the characters from ''The Shrinking Sorceress'' have also [[Canon Immigrant|immigrated]]. Essentially, the ''[['''Witch Girls Adventures]]''''' [[The Verse|verse]] is a puree of MANGA GRAPHIX, ''Princess Lucinda'', and ''Witch Girls Tales'', along with new [[Original Generation]] characters and far more sociology and background development.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]] -- Princess—Princess Lucinda, which is why she tends to get very upset when people point out her tendency toward [[Noble Demon]].

* [[Comically Missing the Point]], [[Spoof Aesop]] -- In—In one story from the second volume of ''Witch Girls Tales'', Lucinda comes to the conclusion that [[Noble Demon|helping people can be rewarding and she should do it more often.]] However, the reward she's referring to is the sadistic enjoyment she gains from destroying some bullies through downright horrifying methods, then tricking the boy who needed the help first into serving her for a year, then tricking him into getting out of it by cleaning her mouse cage... by shrinking down smaller than the mice to give it a really thorough cleaning. Without removing the mice. When it's near their feeding time. Notice she's mentioned under [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] and [[Card-Carrying Villain]].

* [[Cultural Posturing]] -- Quite—Quite a bit of it goes on, and is accepted. (The quote above? That's from a ''history textbook''.) Members of the Highbinders (who actually function on the party line that mundanes and otherkin are scum and witches should come out and rule the world) are the most likely to do this.

* [[Curse of the Ancients]] -- In—In one comic, Lillian says "that would suck" to Headmistress Mistt, who replies "I wouldn't use that exact words, (ever again in my presence)." "Suck" is a [[Gosh Darn It to Heck]] swear-word in today's day and age, but even a few decades ago it was quite a bit harsher.

* [[Cute Witch]] -- The—The player characters. Though the Sorceress and Insider cliques (characters who were born into and spent most of their lives in the magical world) fit the most.

* [[Death Is Cheap]] -- Well—Well, magical death, anyway. Restoring a mostly-intact body from magical death is only a rank 5 Healing spell (out of 10), and although restoring someone who was say, turned into a pile of ash to life isn't actually listed, it's likely not that much harder -- theharder—the amazing task of resurrecting someone from non-magical harm is Rank 7. Restoring from a [[Baleful Polymorph]] is even more trivial. Thus, all the witch girls who have little experience with mundane life or have become too used to the magical world not quite realizing that killing and transforming people is kind of a big deal for ordinary humans.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] -- Even—Even good witches are guilty of this sometimes, but wicked witches downright specialize in it. Denora DeSade is guilty of such things as setting a man's car on fire and accidentally killing his entire family -- notfamily—not that she cared much once she realized -- becauserealized—because he demanded insurance information after a minor accident, or '''conjuring giant ants to eat the theatergoers because the movie she was watching was boring.'''

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] -- The—The Horrors. The picture is quite [[Shout -Out|blatantly Cthulhu]] and they even have a skill called "Gibbering Insanity". As they're born from her dreams, Echidna could qualify as well.

* [[Fallen Princess]] -- Lucinda—Lucinda, who was exiled from the realm of [[Gratuitous Spanish|Bruja]] after her evil monarch parents were murdered.

* [[Fantastic Racism]] -- Witches—Witches tend to consider themselves just plain ''better'' than everyone else -- especiallyelse—especially the Highbinders mentioned above. The rulebooks do take the time to point out that this is actually a ''bad'' thing, but it honestly doesn't get as much play as it probably should.

* [[Flying Broomstick]] -- Witches—Witches use them. There are also flying carpets, flying cars, and flying vespa scooters.

* [[For the Evulz]] -- The—The motivation of nearly all of the villains mentioned in the rulebook. A major exception is the Malleus Maleficarum, who have a very good reason to hate witches and want to see them dead -- thedead—the "villain" part comes primarily from the fact that they don't restrict this to the ones who deserve it.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Witches who smoke are evil, or at least [[Noble Demon|Noble Demons]]s. ''Always.'' They tend to favor cigarette holders, and will frequently turn someone who's annoying them into a cigarette to use.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]] -- Every—Every type of otherkin has a heritage for one of these and players who take the "Half Otherkin" heritage can be one.

* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] -- Lucinda—Lucinda, when she's not an outright villain -- whichvillain—which is more frequent than you might think, given the astonishingly high volume of examples of her being a petty godling.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]] -- One—One of items you can buy for your character.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]] -- Most—Most of the major characters don't think twice about inflicting permanent [[Baleful Polymorph|Baleful Polymorphs]]s and [[Body Horror|Body Horrors]]s on mortals who slightly irritate them and other witches with whom they have petty rivalries, or even just killing them outright. Even the nicer ones (who only ''temporarily'' turn mildly annoying people into dumb animals, inanimate objects, and Things That Should Not Be) stand idly by while others do this.

*** Lucinda at least has the excuse that she's evil -- wellevil—well, actually more of a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] [[Noble Demon]] with a heavy sadistic streak and a shocking disregard for others, but it's [[Baleful Polymorph|best not to point this out to her directly]]. ...so, "evil, but [[Godzilla Threshold|useful when pointed away from you.]]"

* [[Kill It Withwith Water]]: The biggest downside to Hag's Syndrome in the modern day is that water makes witches with the syndrome melt -- themelt—the prejudices against its sufferers are largely a thing of the past, and those with it can use magic or enchanted items to make their hair, skin, and eyes appear a normal color to mingle with Mundanes.

* [[Knight Templar]] -- The—The Malleus Maleficarum. All of them have had tragic experiences with witches and thus know witches are capable of terrible things. So they kill every witch they can -- evencan—even if they had no intention of doing terrible things, or are young new witches who could be guided away from it. They're also specialized to be the typical witch's worst nightmare, being able to soak up magic attacks and deal loads of physical damage.

* [[Magitek]] -- There—There are magical computers and cell phones. The Cybermancy magic type also revolves around this.

* [[Mary Sue]] -- Poked—Poked fun at with the "Mary Sue" character trait, which gives the character a roll bonus for when they're in situations where they need to show off and prove how special they are.

* [[Masquerade]] -- There—There is one. But the Witches World Council doesn't mind if it's broken as long as it isn't on a large scale. Witches telling [[Muggles]] about the secret is vaguely okay, [[Muggles]] who spread the secret or are security risks either get [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]...or the [[Baleful Polymorph|usual]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|fates]].

** It ''was'' broken on a large scale from about the lead-up to the [[American Civil War]] until the end of [[World War II]] -- which—which actually had an open supernatural aspect -- butaspect—but Witches erased all memory and records of this. This rather upset some of the Otherkin, who felt it was about time the Masquerade came down and wanted to re-integrate with human society.

* [[Muggles]] -- Called—Called "mundanes" here.

* [[Off-Model]] -- The—The art in the rulebooks. Some of the artists hired are... better than others...

* [[Order Versus Chaos]] -- Averted—Averted. While it's established that Witches exist to bring chaos and change, while Immortals bring order and stability, they are ''not'' true enemies. They sometimes rub against each other the wrong way, but they're not foes and will work together if they have reason to -- theto—the core book compares their relationship to bickering siblings.

* [[Our Fairies Are Different]] -- Fairies—Fairies range from [[Fairy Companion|tiny]] [[Winged Humanoid|Winged Humanoids]]s to gnomes to the High Elf variety. Many have an affinity for the arts.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] -- Most—Most vampires are evil and conniving and only help others if it would benefit them in some way. They also tend to organize themselves into medieval style kingdoms. They have all the usual aversion to sunlight and are weak to Necromancy. They also have [[Super Strength]], [[Super Speed]], are immortal, can reproduce normally or by biting others, and are physically numb (they cannot feel, taste, or have a heartbeat) if they don't have blood in their system. Lookswise, they range from [[Looks Like Orlok]] to [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Edward Cullen]] (without the sparkling) depending on their heritage. [[Dhampyr]] also exist.

* [[Our Werebeasts Are Different]] -- Shapeshifters—Shapeshifters come in mostly the wolf, cat, and raven varieties and all shift and become angry and lash out during the full moon. They can be born normally or turn others via a bite, and are mostly immune to Alteration magic. They can shift into a half-animal form and a regular animal form.

* [[Ret -Gone]] -- Another—Another major risk to mortals in the girls' vicinity.

* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] -- There—There are rampant spelling errors in the rulebook, which don't impact the rules but are most definitely annoying. The opening dedication is from a schoolteacher. Irony!

* [[Royal Brat]] -- Lucinda—Lucinda. Don't like it? Have fun being a toad.

* [[Scout Out]] -- The—The Hex Scouts.

* [[Screw You, Elves|Screw You, Witches!]] -- The—The Malleus' reason for existence is to take down the pretty, perfect witches.

* [[Shout -Out]] -- The—The rulebooks make references to other witch series like ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina]]'' and ''[[Bewitched (TV)|Bewitched]]''.

** The Immortals seem like a nod to [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]. There's a [[Pokémon (Franchise)|Monsterdex]] available for quick 'n easy monster scouting. Possible allies/enemies in one adventure include [[Ghostbusters|the Specter Breakers]], who can help vanquish [[Pirates of the Caribbean|pirate zombies]] and [[South Park|pirate ghosts]] (ghost pirates?). In one adventure run at cons the Tin Man shows up and intones [[The Terminator|"Come with me if you want to live."]] There's a lot of pop culture shout-outs, let's say.

* [[You Fail History Forever]] -- Vlad—Vlad Dracul and Vlad Dracula are not the same person. They just seem to have not realized they were not only two different people, but father and son. A hint is that "Dracula" roughly translates to English as "Son of the Dragon", with "a" being the "Son of" part.

* [[Wicked Witch]] -- Hag—Hag's Syndrome makes a witch look about as close to the part as the series' [[Cute Witch|Cute Witches]]es and [[Hot Witch|Hot Witches]]es can, with red eyes, green skin and hair, and [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|a tendency to melt in water]]. It's essentially a congenital disorder, though, and has nothing to do with the witch's morality. Good witches can have it, and truly wicked witches can look perfectly normal.

* [[Witch Species]] -- All—All women, of course. The male counterpart are Immortals, who function the same way for the most part, but can only cast very weak spells. And are very resistant to magic. And they have massive supernatural [[Super Strength|strength]] and [[Super Speed|speed]].

* [[Wizarding School]] -- The—The game is designed to revolve around these.

* [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word]] -- Lillian—Lillian Tamako's grandmother revealed to her at age 7 that she is descended from a long line of (long thought to be extinct) Japanese witches called "The Maho" and that she is the first one in centuries. A lot of [[Anime]] fans can tell you that "maho" or "mahou" is just the Japanese word for "magic".

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